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AVS-UK

AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices. AVS UK has grown rapidly thanks to the funding from commercial primes, investment from the mother company and grants with the UK Space Agency, ESA and Innovate UK.
AVS has also got its own large dedicated engineering workshop (ENSAMBLA1) for high precision assemblies and tegrations, ISO-9 clean room (ENSAMBLA2), non-dedicated ISO-8 clean room (ENSAMBLA3), and access to ISO-7 clean rooms, creating a one-stop shop for high-value mechanical, thermal and propulsion Space systems.	ENSAMBLA1: Dedicated high precision assembly and integration rooms for Space systems.
AVS UK is also developing its own test facility for high thrust electric and hybrid propulsion thrusters, including their own 1-10 N water electrolysis. Expected date Q3 2020. (TESTA)	ENSAMBLA 2: Dedicated ISO-9 clean room (for assembly and integration of EMs).
In parallel of INTEGRA, AVS envisages to have its own ISO-7 cleanroom by Q1 2022 (ENSAMBLA4). In conjunction with the spin-off URA Thrusters are building a new thruster production, integration and test facility for water propulsion thrusters. Expected date Q1 2022 (INTEGRA). ENSAMBLA is offered to customers if either engineering services or support during design, manufacturing, assembly or integration are required. TESTA will be offered in a full-week basis rent including support and data acquisition. INTEGRA will be a private facility.	ENSAMBLA3: Non-dedicated ISO-8 clean room.
	ENSAMBLA4: Access to ISO-7 clean rooms and future dedicated ISO-7 clean room.

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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
Zephyr-T High Altitude Pseudo Satellite

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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
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20K Cryostat
The 20 Kelvin vacuum cryostat is a multi-shroud design, with 5 concentric shrouds, allowing efficient thermal de-coupling of the flight hardware from the external environment.
3C Test Ltd
3C Test has become one the UK leading EMC test houses and fully intends to maintain that position. It can provide a comprehensive EMC testing service at unit or subsystem level.
3D Rapid Prototyping
5G Facilities & Testbeds
600m2 burn hall and 250m2 fire dynamics laboratory
Equipment includes the 9m x 9m burn hood and 100 bar water mist system.
60Co Irradiation Facility Specifics
NPL's three 60Co self-shielded irradiators are available for the irradiation of dosimeters or investigations and tests of materials.
6-degree of freedom simulation
70K Cryostat
The 77K vacuum cryostat is mainly used for testing/ characterisation of flight CCDs.
AAC Clyde Space
AAC Clyde Space’s in-house facilities are fully committed to its own extensive manufacturing and test programmes and so the company does not offer stand-alone testing services, instead primarily offering these as subsets of larger programmes.
Abingdon
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ABSL Enersys
ABSL has a World-class suite of design, build and testing facilities for cell screening, matching and acceptance testing for the production of space-qualified Lithium-ion batteries.
ABSL Enersys - Bonded store
ABSL Enersys - Engineering Support
ABSL Enersys - Thermal Chambers
Acoustic
Additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Forming Research Centre – University of Strathclyde
Full details of services and equipment may be found on the AFRC website, and a pdf brochure is available with full equipment details.
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Businesses can work with AMRC on a one-off project or join as a member for long-term collaboration.
Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE):
AEON Engineering Ltd
AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering design, technology development and product test house. They work with Academic and R&D Institutions to deliver fully functioning products for R&D and Space applications.
Aerodynamics Services
AIG Facilities
Air Bearing NanoSat simulator
Air bearing systems
The SSC has a number of air-bearing test facilities to model the micro-gravity space environment for testing of spacecraft navigation and control systems (e.g. for simulating formation flying or proximity manoeuvres).
Airborne Engineering Ltd
Airborne Engineering Ltd is a UK company based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, site of the former Rocket Propulsion Establishment (RPE Westcott) and its staff have over 70 years combined experience in rocket systems design and testing.
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J1 Test Bay
Airborne Engineering Ltd - J2 Test Bay
Airborne Facilities
Airbus Defence & Space - Data Channels
Airbus Defence & Space - Newport & Bristol
Airbus Defence & Space – Portsmouth Site
The Airbus Portsmouth site has a very extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ling Electronic Industries C340 Vibrator (Large Shaker)
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - M+P International VXI Controller x 2 off
Airbus Defence & Space - Stevenage - Ultra-High Vacuum Chambers (x2)
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Clean Rooms
The Portsmouth site’s principal space integration area is a large clean-room known as ‘Neptune’ used for the integration of spacecraft sub-systems, payload modules and instruments.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - EMC Facilities
The Portsmouth site has a comprehensive range of EMC chambers, test rooms, and equipment. The Portsmouth Triton Antenna Range and EMC facility is one of the largest of its type in Europe - catering for an extensive range of Antenna and EMC measurements.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Shock and Drop Test Facilities
Airbus DS has created a well-equipped and expertly staffed facility able to perform a wide range of shock tests and data analyses.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Airbus Portsmouth has a full complement of production facilities for space electronics, fully compliant with ESA and other manufacturing standards.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Airbus's TV facilities simulate the severe conditions of space, the computer-controlled thermal vacuum chambers can subject units to the extremes of their working environment.
Airbus DS Portsmouth - Vibration Facilities
Airbus DS Portsmouth has a range of shakers with advanced digital control and analysis systems able to test a wide range of products ranging from component level, to large payloads of several tonnes.
Airbus DS Stevenage
The Airbus Stevenage site has an extensive range of space development and test facilities which effectively constitute a one-stop-shop for many of its own programmes.
Airbus DS Stevenage Propulsion Activites
In the field of spacecraft propulsion, Airbus DS Stevenage provides support to spacecraft system design, platform engineering, manufacture, assembly and integration.
Airbus DS-Stevenage Thermal Design and Manufacturing Facility
Airbus has vast experience in internal and external thermal design to meet the thermal requirements of the harsh space environment.
Airbus Mars Yard
The Airbus Mars Yard was built for the ExoMars Rover project in 2013 and consists of a fully enclosed simulated Martian environment (30 x 13 m) and control room.
Airbus Stevenage Bio-Clean Facility
The Airbus Stevenage site features a Bio-Clean facility for hardware preparation for e.g. planetary lander missions.
Airbus Stevenage Climatic Testing Facility
The Airbus Stevenage Environmental Test (EVT) climatic facilities consist of five climatic chambers.
Aircraft Research Association - Bedford
ARA are able to offer high quality facilities, technologies, and testing solutions in support of high-velocity aerodynamics of space vehicles.
Alcatel I-SPEEDER ICP Etching system and STS RIE system
All Organisations A-Z
Significant UK entities involved with space R&D and space systems testing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Analytical Laboratory
Anechoic chamber
Astronautics Group (FEE) Chemical Propulsion Facility
Astronautics Group Electric Propulsion & Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The David Fearn Electric Propulsion Laboratory is a state-of-the-art electric propulsion and space systems testing laboratory and is used in the qualification of ESA EP projects.
Astronautics Group Engineering Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC)
Astronautics Group Vibration Qualification Facility
Astronautics Group μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre
The University of Southampton has invested over £3M in μ-VIS high resolution X-Ray computed tomography (CT) facilities.
Astronomy and Earth Observation Instrumentation Group (AIG)
AstroTube™ Booms
AVS-UK
AVS conceives and develops high-value mechanisms, instruments and robotics for high-value Space missions. AVS is also developing its own catalogue of Space products for IOS, mechanisms, propulsion systems and thermal devices.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury products
Aylesbury Vibration Test Facility
Battery design and space qualification
Battery Design Software - BEAST
Battery Test Equipment
Beckermet Engineering and Technology Center
Belfast
Belfast Clean Room
Bell Cryostat
The Higgs Bell Cryostat is suited to a number of low temperature vacuum testing applications.
Bio-Control & Planetary Protection
Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is establishing the next generation of extreme environment research & test centres to serve the needs of the offshore energy, maritime security and space sectors.
Borwell
Borwell is an innovative and growing UK secure software business which has now expanded into the space sector. Agile teams are focused on creating software solutions and systems integration services for customers in the UK, Europe and internationally.
Bristol
Bristol Clean Room
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux - GNSS Geodetic Receivers
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory
The Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory features a number of state of the art satellite tracking, atmospheric sensing and gravity measuring sensors. Many of its observations are made freely and rapidly available to the global community.
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Absolute Gravity Lab
British Geological Survey, NERC: Herstmonceux Geodetic Observatory - Satellite Ranging Facility
Calibration Facility
Cardiff
Cardiff University
The AIG has excellent facilities, potentially available to external users. AIG has significant experience of collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Cardiff University-Atmospheric Spray Rig
Cardiff University-Gas Turbine Research
Castings
Catapult CubeSat Development Facility
Catapult Far-Field Antenna Test Range
The Catapult has established a 400m far-field antenna test range at its Harwell site, essentially replicating the now-closed Cobham (Leatherhead) antenna range.
Catapults & Fraunhofer Institutes
Centre for Advanced Instrumentation – Durham University
Durham has been at the cutting edge of space research for many years and has an outstanding reputation in space science.
Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation (CCSI)
Centre for Process Innovation
CPI project teams work closely with organisations to understand distinct requirements and to create a custom and systematic stage-gated process to inform development routes and commercialisation models.
Centre for Solar Energy Research (CSER):
Centrifuge
The Wyre Forest site has the largest centrifuge in the UK
Chemical Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Chemical Propulsion Engines and Thrusters
Chemical Testing
Roxel has a modern chemical laboratory where technical experts analyse a wide variety of explosive and non-explosive materials using a range of methods.
City University
City university hosts a number of wind tunnel facilities under the banner of the National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF). They include a low-turbulence wind tunnel and a transonic facility.
Clean Room Facilities
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Clean Rooms
Airbus Defence and Space has a number of clean rooms in Stevenage of various sizes for unit level and system-level AIT.
Clean Rooms
Clean rooms and optical equipment
Cleanroom Facility - Belgium
Climate chambers
A large number of climatic chambers are available to cater for a wide range of sizes and climatic conditions.
Climatic Testing
Cobham
Cobham RAD Europe is a business unit of Cobham plc, structurally within the Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions division which produces a wide range of space and defence hardware, including radiation hard components, antennas and actuators.
Cold forming
Cold Gas Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Cold Gas Thruster testing
For cold gas testing Roxel has an air rig of the blow down type which is suitable for short duration trials of up to about 30 sec depending on the pressure and mass flow rates required.
Commercial Data and Compute (Cloud) Services
Cloud services in principle allow access to virtually limitless computing resources, which scale with cost. Provided the architecture fits the proposed application and data management requirements, the cloud resources can grow with need, avoiding concerns
Complex Shock and Pyroshock test facility
Component engineering
Component procurement
Composite Manufacture
Composites Integration RTM system
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
The CSA Catapult's purpose is to deliver long-term benefits to the UK economy and accelerate UK economic growth in industries where applying compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage and enables new products or end markets.
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
Concurrent Design Facility
Cone calorimeter
Contact
Coordinate Measurement Machine
Coventry University AF100 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University AF80 Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Coventry University Wind Tunnels
The University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing has 3 primary wind tunnel facilities. These are the Mercedes Petronas low speed wind tunnel, TeQuipment AF100 wind tunnel, and the TeQuipment AF80 smoke wind tunnel.
Cranfield
Cranfield Space Research Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield expects to continue using a mix of its own facilities and specialist facilities at other organisations, since collaborations bring benefits to both partners.
Cranfield University - Drag sail design and build
Cranfield University – National Flying Laboratory Centre
Use of the facilities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information, contact the Head of NFLC, Professor Nicholas Lawson
Cranfield University - Space Research Centre Facilities
Culham
Custom MMIC design and supply
Viper RF designs and supplies monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and packaged die.
Custom test fixture design and analysis facility
Custom test rig design facility
Data and Computing
Deep Water Facilities
Deimos UK - Harwell
Deimos currently has no plans to develop new facilities in the UK, but there is a possibility that future Deimos spacecraft assembled and integrated outside the UK could be environmentally tested in the UK on the Harwell site.
Deployable Antennas
Design and Prototyping
Detailed chamber characteristics
Dundee
Dundee
Durham University
Durham University has a long track record of working with space facilities and space data. Manufacture, integration and test facilities for space instruments and optics are available for collaborative use by industry and research organisations.
EAL Propulsion Activities and Facilities
Earth Observation and Characterisation Facility, EOCF
The EOCF at Imperial College, overseen by the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, is a resource for the development of instrumentation across a broad range of research applications.
East England
East Midlands
ECIT TEST Laboratories
ECIT has five electromagnetic test laboratories housing state-of-the-art facilities
Edinburgh
Edinburgh products
Edinburgh Vibration Facility
EEE Component testing
Electric Propulsion
One of the electric propulsion technologies under development is the Quad Confinement Thruster (QCT), which is a high performance plasma propulsion system for spacecraft.
Electric Propulsion (Space) and Space Hardware Manufacturing and Testing Facilities
Electric Propulsion Design, Development & Testing
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test and Evaluation
Electromagnetic Ranges
Electromagnetic Testing
NPL runs one of the world's most comprehensive capabilities for traceable measurement of basic electromagnetic parameters at RF and Microwave frequencies.
Electronic Labs and Workshops
Element Materials Technology
Within the UK, Element can provide a vast array of testing services of all types at its numerous locations. In particular the Wimborne and Hull facilities are able to provide the UK space community with comprehensive mechanical and RF testing services.
Element Vibration Facilities, Wimborne
EMC
EMC test facilities
Intertek provides the capacity, proximity and engineering resources to streamline the customer EMC compliance testing process for the space market. The Leatherhead site offers fully anechoic and semi-anechoic chambers.
Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE) at Jordanstown
Engineering design and analysis
Engineering test laboratory
Viper RF has in-house capability to perform production test at wafer level and for packaged devices. Prototype and production test capability is available up to 110GHz.
ESR Clean Room
ESR Specialist Manufacturing Facilities
ESR Technologies
ESR Technology is active in a range of markets covering space and terrestrial industries and specialises in tribology, the field of engineering related to friction, wear and lubrication.
ESR Thermal Vacuum Facilities
European Astrotech
EAL is generally content with its in-house design and test facilities and with the analysis capabilities of its main laboratory. Its B2 test bay is currently being upgraded to test subsystems associated with HTP (High Test Peroxide) green propellant.
EV420 Proximity Aligner
Extreme conditions environmental test facility
FAAM Instrumentation Accommodation
FAAM operated BAe-146-301 Atmospheric Research Aircraft
FAAM Science Crew Accommodation
Facilities at Westcott and Other Facilites
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
FAAM is a public facility, funded by BEIS. NERC grant applications can include access to the facility which will be funded free at point of delivery – for these contact the FAAM operations manager.
Facility Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
Falcon Project Ltd, Westcott
Falcon would like to see a high-altitude test facility at Westcott. Falcon is planning to redevelop ‘K Site’ at Westcott, which includes K2 a horizontal test stand, K1 a vertical test stand and R Site which comprises two smaller firing bays.
Farmborough
FFX Simulation Software
Filtronic
Filtronic design, manufacture and test high-performance RF, microwave and mmWave components and sub-systems for challenging applications
Find A Capability
Fire Resistance
FireSERT Facilities
Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT)
Flexure
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited
Access to these software tools and services for specific applications is via direct consultancy with Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd. Some packages can also be distributed under commercial or academic license.
Fluid Gravity Engineering Limited - Hydrocode modelling for high-speed impact
Fourier Transform Spectrometers
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Glasgow
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd is a Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) incorporated as a not-for‐profit, limited by guarantee company that provides applied research and development services to industry.
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd - Novel Advanced Laser R&D Facility
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd Glasgow - Modelling, Simulation & Design
Friction stir welding for low-cost titanium propellant tanks
Fully Instrumented Air/Sea Ranges with Core Space Launch Capabilities
Furnace capabilities
General Engineering Development Testing Facility – Birchwood Park
Glasgow
Glossary
Glyndwr Innovations Limited
Glyndŵr Innovations Limited has specialist skills and equipment for the fabrication, test and integration of high precision optics. This includes large, up to 2.0m diameter, and complex optics such as aspherics.
Glyndwr University - Glyndŵr University St Asaph
Google Cloud Platform
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited
GES offers Geostationary Satellite Services both for Telecommand, tracking and control (TT&C) and TV uplink. We offer LEO tracking (3.8m & 5.0m) antennas in S & X band.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - LEO Tracking Systems
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited - Lunar and Deep Space Telecommunications
Granite Table
Guildford
Hardware and management for entry and descent systems
Harwell
Harwell Irradiation Facility
Hazard Testing
The hazard laboratory has achieved accreditation from DOSG to carry out small scale hazard testing as required by DEF-STAN 13-129/1.
Helmholtz coil magnetometer
Helmholz calibration magnetometer
Higgs Centre for Innovation
The Higgs Centre for Innovation is a government institute (part of STFC-UKRI, co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site).
Higgs Electronic Functional Test facilities
The Higgs Centre is full equipped for many common space system electronics functional testing requirements.
Higgs EMC & RFI Testing Facilities
The Higgs EMC & RFI testing facilities are suited to a number of general EMC and RFI testing scenarios.
Higgs Environmental Chamber
The Higgs Environmental Testing Chamber is suited to a number of thermal testing activities and bakeout.
Higgs Materials Cryostat
The Higgs materials Cryostat is a precision controlled small cryostat suited to low temperature small systems testing.
Higgs Optical Test facilities
The Higgs Optical testing facilities are suitable for spacecraft optical attitude sensing systems.
Higgs RF Comms facilities
Higgs RF comms facilities embrace VHF to S-band.
Higgs SpaceWire Facility
The Higgs SpaceWire Facility features full SpaceWire electronic communications testing facilities. It is populated with a suite of test equipment from both STAR-Dundee and 4Links.
Higgs Sump Cryostat
The Higgs Sump Cryostat is suited to testing of rotary systems (motors etc.) down to 20K.
Higgs Swiss Cryostat
The Higgs Swiss Cryostat is suited to general vacuum compatibility testing.
Higgs Vibration Facility
The Higgs Vibration facility is suitable for general vibration testing of subsystem or nanosatellite systems.
High Intensity UV Testing
High Power Chemical Engine Testing
High Power Microwave Testing
High Power Radio Frequency Testing
Several types of Radio Frequency (RF) tests are available at Stevenage.
High Pressure Optical Chamber (HPOC)
High Temperature Facility (HTF) – Birchwood Park
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult was established to be the catalyst for the growth and success of UK advanced manufacturing. The 7 centres offer access to world-class equipment, expertise and collaborative opportunities.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Forming Research Centre, Strathclyde
The Advanced Forming Research Centre is a globally-recognised centre of excellence and research in innovative manufacturing technologies, R&D, metal forming and forging.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotheram
The AMRC of the University of Sheffield is one of the 7 institutes of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. AMRC specialise in carrying out world-leading research into advanced machining, manufacturing and materials for industry.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton & Sedgefield
CPI works with partners to develop products and processes that enhance health and well-being, protect and improve the environment and increase productivity across industries.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) develops and proves innovative manufacturing processes and technologies in an agile, low risk environment, in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions.
High-speed aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulation
Honeywell (formerly COM DEV) - Aylesbury and Edinburgh
Honeywell (COM DEV) is generally well-equipped for its own purposes and can access those external facilities needed to support its RF component, subsystem manufacturing and test activities.
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Assembly and Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Bonders
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Cleaning
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Inspection
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Seal Test
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Sealing
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - COMDEV Electronics Manufacturing Facilities - Soldering
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ka-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - Ku-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - High Power Microwave Testing Facility - L-Band Facilities
Honeywell, Aylesbury and Edinburgh - RF Testing Facilities
Hot forging and forming
Houghton-le-Spring
Hull
Hybrid rocket motors
Hybrid rocket Technology
SSC is active in other types of propulsion research including hybrid rockets, which have characteristics that are well suited to small spacecraft missions
Hypersonic Facilities
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Hypobaric Chamber
Igniters
Image Processing Chips
Imperial College - London
Both the Magnetometer Calibration Facility and the EOCF are world class calibration facilities able to support a full range of active characterisation projects for Blackett Laboratory physicists.
Imperial-College - Vacuum Chambers
Indoor Rocket Propulsion Test Facilities
The ‘Rocket Lab’ within the SEC has hybrid and bi-propellant rocket test facilities for research into rocket engine design and can provide a range of high quality evaluation and data analysis options.
Industrial Space Test Facilities
In-house Facilities
Inspection and Test
Instrument Characterisation & Calibration
Instrument Design & Development
Instrument Test Laboratory
Integrated Manufacturing
International Space Propulsion (ISP) - Marlborough
ISP’s consultancy expertise covers all aspects of space propulsion system design, manufacture, test and support services.
Intertek - Leatherhead
Within the UK, Intertek can provide an extensive array of testing services of all types at more than 50 locations. Specifically, the Leatherhead facility is able to provide a comprehensive EMC testing service.
Intertek Leatherhead Environmental Test Facilities
The Leatherhead site offers an extensive range of chambers to test temperature (at ambient pressure), vibration, shock, mechanical wear and dust/moisture ingress and the effect of the light spectrum.
ISO 7 Clean Room
ISVR Rayleigh Laboratories - Southampton
Although ISVR’s principal activities are centred on acoustics and vibration research, the Laboratory offers a comprehensive acoustic test facility for the space community, ranging from unit- or subsystem-level all the way up to spacecraft-level.
Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Jacobs Inspection Validation Centre (IVC) – Birchwood Park
Jacquard Controlled Weaving Looms
JASMIN (NERC, hosted by STFC) - JASMIN Supercomputing Service
JASMIN-NERC-STFC
Jordanstown
Kidderminster
Kingston
Kingston Machine Learning Propulsion Laboratory
In collaboration with the Kingston University London Department of Computing, experimental data from any firing tests you conduct can be analysed using developed neural networking and deeplearning algorithms for deeper understanding and analysis.
Kingston Micro-Gravity Drop Tower
Kingston University London’s drop tower is designed to deliver short duration periods of microgravity for small to medium space experiments.
Kingston University London
Kingston University has excellent facilities for rocket engine research and is happy to work collaboratively with external academic and commercial users.
Large EP Chamber Facility
ECS large chamber for high power cathode development
Large reverberation chamber
Large Scale Flexure Facility
Large Spacecraft-Level Facilities
Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Leatherhead
LEEP 2
LEEP1
LEEP3
Leicester
Leicester Long Beam-line Test Facility
Leybold thermal vacuum chamber
The TVAC chamber can be configured either as a conventional thermal-vacuum chamber or as a low energy electron calibration chamber, the latter configuration being normally for sole use by MSSL.
LIFE (Lithium-Ion Fade Evaluator)
Light-weighted optical systems
LMSSC-UK Possible Expansion
Locations
Locations of large and small UK facilities and university departments with space engineering facilities
Lockheed Martin Space Systems UK - Harwell
LMS' UK space facilities include: ‘Aeroshell’ thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles; payload release mechanisms; terrestrial and planetary landing systems; space-plane actuation systems; and hypersonic and aerodynamic modelling.
London
Long Test Track (LTT) capable of supporting Space Impact Projects
Machine tools and EDM
Machining
Magna Parva
Magna Parva’s manufacturing, environmental, validation and testing facilities are available to external users under suitable contractual arrangements.
Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility
The Magnetic Mobile Coil Facility (MCF) is available to third parties.
Magnetic Testing Facilities
Main chamber and diagnostics
Manufacturing facilities
Manufacturing Intelligence
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing of metals & polymers)
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced & Additive Electronics Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Advanced Tooling and Fixturing
Manufacturing Technology Centre - High Integrity Fabrication
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Intelligent Automation
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Manufacturing Informatics, Simulation & Digital Engineering
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Metrology and NDT
Manufacturing Technology Centre - Surface Engineering
Mars Space (MSL) - Southampton
The Mars Space EP Lab facilities are private, but are available for use by 3rd parties, subject to availability, and via normal commercial arrangements.
Mars Yards & Planetary Simulation
Mass Properties
Mass Properties and Structural Test Facility
Airbus DS Stevenage has comprehensive facilities for measurement of mass properties and structural testing.
Material characterisation
Material Testing Equipment: Impact Testing
Impact Testing Equipment: Manufacturer: Instron, Model Number: Dynatup® 9200 Series image
Material Testing Equipment: Zwick Materials Testing Machine and fibre optic strain measurement
Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1)
Materials characterisation
Mechanical Design & Development Facilities
Medical
Metallographic preparation
Metrology
Metrology capabilities
Micro-Gravity & Drop Towers
Micro-Porous Carbon Table
Microscopy
Microsoft Azure
Microwave anechoic chamber
Microwave Free Space test setup
Minijet Injection Moulding
Mission Design & Systems Engineering
Mission Laboratory
MLI Installation
MLI Manufacture
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Funtingdon Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Hebrides Range
MOD / QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - Unmanned Airborne Systems Test and Evaluation
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities
There are number of MoD facilities which may be of potential use to the space community needing to test rocketry, impacting probes, RF equipment, and to access unmanned UAVs for airborne demonstration of space payloads.
MOD/QinetiQ LTPA Ranges and Facilities - MoD Pendine Range
Modelling chute aerodynamics
Molecular Spectroscopy
Motor cases
MSSL Clean Rooms
MSSL has three clean rooms for assembly, integration and test of flight instrumentation.
MSSL Thermal Vacuum Chamber
MSSL Vibration Facility
MSSL has a Ling Dynamics V726 vibration facility for flight hardware qualification and acceptance testing, installed in an ISO Class 8 clean room.
Nammo Cold Gas Systems
Nammo UK (Moog ISP) - Westcott
Nammo’s high altitude and sea‐level test cells at Westcott are all used to support in‐house rocket engine development projects, but there is some capacity for taking on external work, subject to availability and normal commercial arrangements.
National Composites Centre - Advanced Composites Manufacture
National Composites Centre - Design and Simulation
National Composites Centre - Digital Manufacturing, Automation and Tooling
National Composites Centre - Materials and Processes
National Composites Centre, Bristol
The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre, delivering world-class innovation in the design and rapid manufacture of composites. It is one of the 7 organisations affiliated to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
National Physical Laboratory - Time and Frequency Group
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Teddington
The NPL range of facilities and measurement capabilities is not limited to those described above and covers a wide range of other areas.
National Satellite Test Facility
National Wind Tunnel Facility
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) is an initiative in which (currently) 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities are made open for up to (25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university & industry.
Near Field Test Range
Newport
Newton Launch Systems
SME dedicated to the development of innovative space technology and providing the facilities for others to do likewise. Newton has teamed up with the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre to provide a range of test facilities at Llanbedr airfield.
Non Destructive Testing
Services provided include inspection, application and equipment development, technology transfer, Level lll consultancy, training and validation of NDT applications.
Non-destructive Testing
Roxel has an NDT facility which contains X-ray machines and ultrasonic instrumentation.
North East England
North West England
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast
NPL - CO2 Monitoring
NPL - Cubic Cavity Vacuum Chamber
NPL - Quantum Physics
NPL - Ultra Stable Lasers and Clocks
NPL Contact Thermometry-SPRTs
NPL Contact Thermometry-Thermocouples
NPL Fixed point Cells
NPL Instrumentation Design & Development
NPL Magnetic Test Facility
A low magnetic field facility has been established at NPL in which the Earth's magnetic field is cancelled to less than a nanotesla at the centre of a 3m diameter triaxial Helmholtz coil system.
NPL Radiation Test Facilities
NPL is the UK's National Measurement Institute, developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available and one such area, particularly important for space missions, is radiation testing.
NPL Thermal Design and Development
NPL Thermal Modelling
NPL-Non-contact Thermometry
NPL's Radiometric Calibration and Characterisation Facility
NPL is collaborating with STFC/RAL Space to establish the Centre for Calibration of Space Instrumentation as a UK National facility on the Harwell site.
NPL-Thermal Imaging
NSTF Acoustic Test Facility
NSTF EMC Facilities
NSTF Large Vacuum Chambers
NSTF Mass Properties Facility
NSTF Vibration
Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
The Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) is a collaboration of academic and industrial partners from across the nuclear supply chain, with the mission of helping UK manufacturers win work at home and worldwide.
Nuclear AMRC - Manufacturing Innovation
The Nuclear AMRC works with companies to overcome their nuclear-specific manufacturing problems and helps them develop the technical capability to compete on cost, quality and delivery.
Nuclear AMRC - Supply Chain Development
NWTF City University of London Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
NWTF City University of London Transonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x4’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University 8’x6’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF Cranfield University Icing Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
NWTF Imperial College Supersonic Facility
NWTF Imperial Flagship 10’ x 5’ Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Cambridge Supersonic Wind Tunnels
NWTF University of Glasgow’s deHavilland 9’x7’ Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Anechoic Wind Tunnel
NWTF University of Southampton Hydroscience Tank
NWTF University of Southampton R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel
Off the shelf spacecraft solutions
Open University
The OU Department of Physical Sciences has excellent facilities to support its in-house planetary research programmes. It is happy to collaborate with external users, subject to availability of resources and normal commercial arrangements.
Optical Fabrication
Oracle
Organisation Types
UK facilities across many types and interests
Other magnetometer facilities
Outgassing Testing
Oxford
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is an award-winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
Oxford Space Systems Clean Industrial Space
Oxford Space Systems Cleanroom
Oxford Space Systems Environmental Chamber
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PCB Assembly
Phase-resolved particle-imaging velocimetry (PIV)
Photolith facility
Physical Testing
Roxel has a comprehensive physical testing capability with an excellent range of equipment and instrumentation supported by well trained staff.
Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility (PANGU)
Planetary Environment Chambers
Plasma and electromagnetic interaction modelling
Polymer and Composite testing equipment. Manufacturer: TA Instruments
Port Talbot
Portsmouth
Power Supplies and measuring instruments & Diagnostic capabilities
Precision Development Facility
Precision Machining Facilities
Precision metrology laboratory
Precision Optics Laboratory
Premises
Prestwick Spaceport
Prestwick Spaceport will operate from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, a 24/7 airport with two major runways 12/30 and 03/21 of 2,986m and 1,905m respectively. Prestwick Spaceport aims to establish itself as a horizontal space launch facility in Scotland.
Project Support Facility
Propulsion
Propulsion Ground Support Equipment
Propulsion subsystem design
Propulsion Test Facilities
Propulsion test facilities
Pyro Shock
QinetiQ
QinetiQ are a world-leader in the provision of relevant Test & Evaluation services, an enabler to the delivery of advanced capability.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Quantum Technology
Quasi-Optical Test bench for Frequency Selective Surfaces etc
An AB Millimeter VNA and quasi-optical test bench
QUB - QAMEC - Material classification
QUB CWI Anechoic test ranges
The Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) has anechoic chambers, a reverberation chamber, and a non-linear mm-wave Keysight laboratory.
QUB Workshops
The electronics workshop is able to process high frequency PCB-based substrates from suppliers such as Taconic and Rodgers, and provide through-hole plating of small vias for double-sided boards.
Queen’s Advanced Micro-Engineering Centre (QAMEC)
AQMEC’s MEMS-based activities have been utilised in the space industry for the fabrication of Frequency Selective Surfaces utilising both quartz and micro-machined silicon. Reflectarray antennas incorporating Liquid Crystal have also been manufactured usi
Queens University Belfast
QUB has excellent facilities to support both its in-house research programmes and external users, subject to normal commercial terms.
Radar Signature and Antenna Testing
Radiation Test facilities
Cobham’s facilities are available to all organisations, typically as part of a scope of work to make measurements on samples in addition to irradiation.
Radiation Test Facility - REEF
Radiation Test facility specifics
Radiation Testing Facilities
Radnor Main Test Range
Radnor Range
Radnor is a UK MoD accredited independent test house for weaponry & explosives. Radnor is able to provide static rocket motor testing which can be combined with on-site mixing and filling of energetic materials.
Radnor Range Energetic Materials Preparation Facility
Radnor Range Large-Scale Rocket Test Facility
RAL Space
As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, it is clearly part of RAL Space’s mission to provide world-class space development and test facilities for the UK space community.
RAL Space 3m TVAC Facility
RAL Space ASG MARVIN Mars Analogue Rover
RAL Space ASG Outreach-Rovers
RAL Space ASG RIMMER rover vehicle
RAL Space Autonomous Systems Group
RAL Space DJI Inspire-1 UAV
RAL Space Firefly 6 PRO UAV
RAL Space Ground Stations
RAL Space Ground Stations - CASTR (Chilbolton Advanced Satellite Tracking Radar)
RAL Space Ground Stations - Chilton 12m Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations - COATS (Chilbolton Optical Advanced Tracking Sensor)
RAL Space Ground Stations - IOT (In-Orbit Testing) Receiver
RAL Space Ground Stations 6.1m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Ground Stations Chilbolton 4.5m Tracking Antenna
RAL Space Large TVAC Suites
RAL Space Mars Yard
RAL Space Molecular Spectroscopy Facility
RAL Space Quest UAV Q200 & Q300 UAVs
RAL Space Small TVAC Facilities
RAL Space Thermal Vacuum Facilities
RAL Space Typical STC Cleanroom suite-instrument loading
RAL Space Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
RAL Space-CNC Nano-Machining
Reaction Engines Ltd at Culham Science Centre
Reaction Engines is a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system – the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Research
The company is engaged in several research projects to improve manufacturing methods, materials and technologies.
Research, engineering, and technical support services
Resin Transfer Moulding System
Resonate Testing Ltd
Resonate Testing is an ISO17025:2017 accredited test facility providing environmental testing for the space industry, which includes vibration, shock, SRS shock and more.
Reverberation Chamber
RF
RF Testing Facilities
Rocket bodies
Rocket Motor Testing
Rocket Test Ranges
The majority of Roxel’s rocket firing and environmental trials take place on a 100 acre range in the Wyre Forest.
Roxel (Safran-MBDA), Kidderminster
Roxel’s rocket motor design, manufacturing and testing facilities, which were established principally for its own development programmes make it ideally positioned to support external customers in all aspects of rocket propulsion systems.
Roxel Design, Modelling and Analysis
Roxel propulsion hardware and manufacturing facilities
Roxel has extensive facilities and capabilities for the manufacture of rocket-related hardware including: CNC machines, structural bonding, motor case manufacture, case lining and inhibition.
Roxel Trials and Environmental Test Facilities
Roxel has well-established facilities and experienced staff available for performance testing of a variety of propulsion systems including solid propellant rocket motors, thrusters, hybrid engines and air-breathing systems.
Saab340B (G-NFLB)
Sample Containment Cells
Satellite and Satellite Subsystem Products
Honeywell (COM DEV) produce a number of important satellite subsystems at the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites.
Satellite Applications Catapult - 5G Step Out Centre
Satellite Applications Catapult - CEMS
Satellite Applications Catapult - Goonhilly Ground Station Facility
Satellite Applications Catapult – Harwell
The Catapult has many down-stream facilities including an operations control centre with spacecraft and payload control software, data processing facilities and data visualisation facilities including a large video wall and 3-D visualisation suite.
Satellite Applications Catapult - Satellite Telecommunications Laboratory
Satellite Applications Catapult - Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS)
Satellite Applications Catapult - The Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC)
Satellite Ground Stations
Scientific and engineering expertise
Scotland
Scottish Aviation Bulldog
SEREEL2
SEREEL2 is a laser single-event effects test system that enables single-event testing to be done in your lab, rather than at a large particle accelerator.
Services
Shock
Shock Facilities
The RAL Space shock test facility.
Shock Test Facility
Airbus Stevenage has a shock test facility which may be used by third parties.
Shrivenham
Shrivenham Propulsion Facility
Silverstone
Slingsby Firefly T67M260
Small EP chamber facility
Small EP Chambers
Small reverberation chamber
Small Satellites
Small Spacecraft & Instrument-Level Test Facilities
Small Vacuum Chamber
SMART (SMall Antenna Radiated Testing) range
Solder verification
South East England
South West England
Southampton
Space Electronics Design & Development
Space Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
Space Magnetometer Calibration Facility
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group’s Space Magnetometer Lab comprises a team of scientists and engineers, together with the necessary support facilities, for the research and development of magneto-meters for flight on scientific spacecraft.
Space Optics Design & Development
Space Park Leicester
Space Park Leicester aims to be a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and Earth observation, Space Park Leicester will create a collaborative community for academia and industry to develop and grow.
Space Software & Systems
Spacecraft AIV
SpaceFibre
SpaceFibre is a new generation of SpaceWire technology which is able to support the very high data-rates required by sensors like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral imagers.
Spaceflight Academy
Spaceflight Academy Ltd is a commercial spaceflight and aeromedical training company supporting activities for the commercial space industry and providing ancillary training, including space education.
Spaceport Cornwall
Spaceport Cornwall is the UK’s Horizontal Launch solution, utilising the state-of-the-art facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station. A partnership between Cornwall Council and Virgin Orbit will result in a first launch by 2021.
Spaceport Shetland
Shetland Space Centre is a privately-owned company providing support to in orbit satellite operations. This support includes vertical launch of satellites and ground stations for telemetry, data download, command & control & space situational awareness.
Spaceports
SpaceWire
SpaceWire is a spacecraft on-board data-handling network which connects instruments to the mass-memory, data processors and control processors.
Specialist Scientific Laboratory hub – Birchwood Park
Specialist Test Facilities
Spur Electron Limited - Havant
Spur Electron’s expertise and facilities for EEE components and space electronics manufacturing at its Havant site constitute a world-class resource for the UK space community.
SRC Vacuum Bakeout Chamber
Standards Testing (Materials, Wind Tunnel Testing, Anechoic Chambers, Explosives Testing)
STAR-Dundee
STAR-Dundee has particular expertise in SpaceWire and SpaceFibre and its in‐house facilities are dedicated to these technologies and to their further development. STAR-Dundee is happy to work with external customers under suitable commercial arrangements.
STAR-Dundee facilities
STARLab (Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics)
Stevenage
Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
Strathclyde Space Mechatronic Systems Technology Laboratory (SMeSTech)
Structural Testing
Roxel has a structural testing facility for the testing of loads on rocket motor hardware.
Structural Testing
Subsystem Supplier
Supersonic Facilities
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)
Surrey Satellite Technology's facilities are fully dedicated to the manufacture and testing of its own programme of small satellite manufacture and the company does not offer its facilities to third parties.
Surrey Space Centre Clean Room
Surrey Space Centre Ground Station
Swansea
Swansea Chemical Propulsion Test Facilities
Swansea Research Centres and Facilities
Swansea University has a number of world-leading research centres and facilities that are capable of supporting research and development activities in the space or space-related fields and applications.
Swansea University
Swansea University has long-standing and notable experience in collaboration with industry and research institutions in the UK and abroad.
Swindon
Synthetic Environment Testing
TAS-UK Belfast Site
The TAS Belfast facility is the company's centre for electric and chemical propulsion in the UK.
TAS-UK Bristol Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Bristol Business Park, Bristol where advanced testing facilities include a partitioned clean room separated from the main laboratory, dedicated to space integration and AIT.
TAS-UK Harwell Site
Thales Alenia Space is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire and is home to the propulsion, research, design, AIT and engineering teams.
Technologies
Teddington
Tensile and Compression Test Machine 50N-10kN
Test capability: Single Burning item test:
Test capability: Single Flame source
Test facilities
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Thales Alenia Space – UK, Harwell, Bristol & Belfast
TAS UK is a member of a major European Large Scale Integrator, and as such has access to many European AIV facilities. It is watching developments of AIV facilities at the Harwell site with great interest.
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology
The Open University
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities
The Open University - Clean Room Facilities - Sample curation facility
The Open University - Clean Rooms
The Open University - Thermal and planetary environment chambers
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Icy bodies chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Large Mars Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Mercury Chamber
The Open University - Vacuum Chamber Facility - Small Mars Chamber
The Space Research Centre (SRC)
The UK’s National Space Propulsion Test Facility
A new open-access propulsion test facility backed by the UK Space Agency
Thermal and Thermal Vacuum Test Facilities
There are thermal testing facilities at both the Aylesbury and Edinburgh sites, but only the Aylesbury facilities are usually accessible by third parties.
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Chambers
Thermal Design & Development
Thermal Insulation Expertise
Thermal Manufacturing Facilities
Thermal modelling software suites
Thermal Shock Chamber
Thermal Test Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Chambers (Aylesbury)
Thermal Vacuum Cycling and Bakeout Chambers
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
Thermal Vacuum Facilities
The Airbus DS Stevenage Environmental Test Lab has been upgraded with a brand new, state of the art Control Room.
Thermally Matched Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Thermal-Vacuum
Thrust Vector Control (TVC)
Thruster design
TQCM Monitored Thermal Vacuum Bakeout
Airbus has two Vacuum facilities which are set up to ESA requirements for vacuum bakeout, to provide state of the art outgassing monitoring using a trio of Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalances (TQCMs).
Training
Transonic Facilities
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Trials
The majority of trials are carried out under static conditions but dynamic trials can also be conducted especially to simulate eject and launch conditions.
Trials Ranges & Rocket Test Ranges
TS-Space Systems
TS-Space Systems is a well established UK physics group that has been supporting the aerospace industry through their test services and products since 1984.
TWI Abington
TWI High-Altitude Testing Facilities
TWI Port Talbot
TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot
The TWI Technology Centre in Wales offers truly World-class state-of-the-art facilities for research, development and application of NDT techniques which have direct application for the space sector.
Twin Screw Extruder System
554-1148 Rheomex PTW16/25 XL Twin Screw Compounder
Typical ISO5 cleanroom
Typical ISO6 Cleanroom
Typical propellant charges
Roxel has extensive knowledge and experience in the manufacture of a range of solid propellants and the capacity to manufacture all dimensions of solid rocket propellant charges.
Typical STC Cleanroom suite – Optical support equipment
UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The UK ATC has excellent facilities for development and test of space instrumentation as evidenced by a number of advanced technology space programmes it has worked on including MIRI and SPIRE;
UL Martian Environment Simulator (MES)
Ulster University - Belfast & Jordanstown
Ulster University offers excellent facilities and capabilities across advanced engineering, advanced materials technologies, composites, fire testing and material characterisation, and computer science.
Ulster University - Faculty of Computing and Engineering - Engineering Research Institute (ERI)
Ulster University Composites Engineering Facilities
Universities
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
MSSL's facilities are mainly used for internal purposes, but there is some spare capacity to support external customers under usual commercial arrangements.
University of Dundee
The University’s Space Technology Centre has particular expertise and facilities to support research and development of on-board data-handling (OBDH) systems and planetary lander technology.
University of Glasgow Blow-Down HSS Tunnel
University of Glasgow ESA Plume-Regolith Testing
University of Glasgow Indraft Trisonic Tunnel
University of Glasgow Shock Tube
University of Glasgow Shock Tunnel
University of Glasgow Wind Tunnels
Here we suimmarise our high-speed trans-, super- and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities likely to be of interest to the space community.
University of Leicester High Pressure Compressed Air Storage
University of Leicester Space Research Centre (SRC) & Space Park Leicester
The SRC’s facilities have a transient loading and are in principle available for use by external customers - the University has demonstrated experience in accommodating external work, with appropriate planning
University of Leicester Supersonic Wind Tunnels
University of Leicester Transonic Wind Tunnel
University of Leicester Water Table
University of Leicester Wind Tunnels
University of Manchester Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
University of Manchester Trisonic Tunnel
University of Manchester Wind Tunnels
The University offers excellent space research capabilities supported by unique experimental facilities including supersonic/hypersonic flows, control systems, space system engineering and remote sensing, and GIS systems.
University of Manchester Wind-Tunnel Examples
University of Oxford - Department of Physics
The Department’s environmental test facilities are adequate for its in-house programmes. The facilities are available for use by external customers, subject to appropriate planning and commercial terms.
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group High Density Tunnel Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Low Density Tunnel Facility
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group Stalker Tube Details
University of Oxford Hypersonics Group T6 Stalker Tunnel
University of Oxford, Oxford Thermofluids Insitute, Hypersonics Group
University of Oxford-Cold Optics Chambers
University of Oxford-Space View Chamber
University of Oxford-Thermal Cycle Chamber
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton has several departments which offer commercial or collaborative access to specialised space facilities.
University of Southampton – Astronautics Group
The Astronautics Group has excellent facilities to support its space systems engineering activities and its in-house research interests and developments in both electric and chemical propulsion.
University of Southampton – Plasma and Space Science Group
The Plasma and Space Science Group has excellent facilities to support its in-house research interests and developments in electric propulsion.
University of Southampton Quantum & Photonics Technology
University of Southampton Zepler Institute Complex
University of Stathclyde - Strathclyde Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS)
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, before receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university.
University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Radiation Testing Facility – SCAPA
University of Strathclyde Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group
University of Strathclyde Micro devices for cold atom applications
University of Strathclyde microfabricated atomic vapour cells
University of Surrey
The University is a centre of Excellence for space and telecommunications research
University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications
University of Surrey - Shock and Impact Facility
University of Surrey - Vibration Facility
University of Surrey Thermal Test Facility
University of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is focused on the exploitation and development of disruptive quantum technologies. Access to all facilities is only via individual collaborative agreement.
University of Sussex Experimental Quantum Technologies
University of Sussex Quantum - Training
University of Sussex Theory of Quantum Sensors
University of the West of England - Wind Tunnels
The UWE wind tunnel facilities are operated and developed by the department of Engineering, Design & Mathematics in the Faculty of Environment and Technology. The department has two production facilities namely the supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels.
Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) and Services
UWE Subsonic Facility
UWE Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Vacuum bakeout facility
The bake-out facility comprises a stainless steel oil-free vacuum chamber with radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume, instrumented with a residual gas anayser and TQCM monitor.
Vacuum calibration Facility
Vacuum Chambers
SSC has a number of vacuum chambers to test space equipment and in particular Electric Propulsion Systems
Vacuum Chambers
Vacuum UV Testing
Vaeros Ltd – Harwell (The Aerospace Corporation)
Although Vaeros Ltd has no ‘facilities’ in the UK, it is able to offer the UK space community access to its full range of expertise and services available in the US.
Verification of Optics
Vertical EP Chamber Facility
Very Large Vacuum Chambers
Vibration
Vibration Facilities
Vibration Facilities
Honeywell has vibration facilities at both the Edinburgh and Aylesbury sites. The Aylesbury facility is available to third parties under certain conditions.
Vibration Facilities
There are two Vibration Facilities available at Stevenage capable of delivering 200kN and 65kN of dynamic force, in three orthogonal axes.
Vibration Facility
Vibration Facility
The vibrator is capable of mounting full size propulsion systems.
Vibration test facility
Viper RF - Durham
In terms of facilities, VIPER RF offers a custom MMIC design service using space-qualified wafer foundries, and component level engineering test service for MMICs.
Virtual Reality
Vorticity
Vorticity is a centre of excellence for aerospace systems, engineering consultancy and space systems development, specialising in entry, descent and landing systems for space vehicles.
Wales
Warwick Manufacturing Group
WMG is part of the University of Warwick, providing research, education & knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing & technology. WMG is one of the 7 centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC):
West Midlands
Westcott
Westcott
Wimborne
Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamics
Wrexham
Yorkshire & Humber
Zephyr is a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)
The Zephyr has completed its prototyping phase and has now begun production. It will be available for use by customers in the ~2019 timeframe.
Zephyr-S High Altitude Pseudo Satellite
Zephyr-T High Altitude Pseudo Satellite